Feeding mistiming decreases reproductive fitness in flies.
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The diurnally active fruit flies prefer a major meal in the morning. Feeding the flies in the evening uncouples their metabolic cycle from circadian activity rhythms. A paper by Xu et al. in this issue of Cell Metabolism found that such uncoupled rhythms reduce egg laying.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cell metabolism
دوره 13 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011